Theatre

The official Shakespeare Festival kicks off in Michigan

Jeff Klima

Celebrate your love of all things Elizabethan-era when the Shakespeare Fest goeth offeth in Jackson, MI. The official Shakespeare Festival of Michigan, this multi-week...

Genius, Without Torture: Coping and Creativity

Athena Cocoves

In a 1963 interview with The Paris Review, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Katherine Anne Porter made a poignant proclamation: “I think I’ve only spent about...

A Thailand Love Story

Athena Cocoves

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s classic musical about a newly widowed woman and her romance with the King of Siam will hit the local stage when...

Sylvania’s Ten Mile Creek Theatre Company presents “Whose Line Is It?”

Athena Cocoves

Even if you don’t know anything about improv theater, you probably know the hit TV show “Whose Line Is It Anyway?” Taking a cue...

Harvey’s hairy situation

Athena Cocoves

American playwright Mary Chase’s 1944 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Harvey, is a comedy of errors like no other. When social-climber Vera becomes embarrassed by her...

Award-winning musical Kinky Boots comes to Toledo

Athena Cocoves

Family businesses are difficult, especially when they’re nearly-bankrupt. See how a creative son named Charlie kicks life back into the shoe factory he inherited...

“A Funny Thing” Happening at the Toledo Rep

Jeff McGinnis

Throughout her long and prolific theatrical life, Amy Spalding-Heuring has been followed by the specters of Pseudolus, Marcus Lycus and the other characters from...

Masterworks Chorale: “What a Wonderful World”

Athena Cocoves

Musical traditions, like the world, are colorful, diverse and filled with tradition. Channel the song immortalized by Louis Armstrong during Masterworks Chorale: Collage. The...

Kinky Boots: A high-heeled hit

Athena Cocoves

Family businesses are difficult, especially when they’re nearly-bankrupt. See how a creative son named Charlie kicks life back into the shoe factory he inherited...

After Fleming’s farewell

Athena Cocoves

On May 13, lauded opera singer Renée Fleming performed at the Metropolitan Opera for the last time, bidding farewell to her mastered craft. For...

See how love conquers all when The Fantasticks appears at The Valentine Theatre

TCP Staff

Young love often rings true to the story of Romeo & Juliet— even without royal families, feuding fathers, protecting a wall built to keep...

The Actor’s Collaborative Toledo presents “Lilian”

Athena Cocoves

The late Lillian Hellman is remembered for many things— her impressive dramatic talents, writing the 1939 dramatic play The Little Foxes, the far-left sympathies...

Alanna Baker’s Beautiful Black Spider: Inspecting the insects of Cirque du Soleil’s OVO

Athena Cocoves

Eight-year-olds rarely dream of growing up to become a spider— but then again, Alanna Baker was no typical eight-year-old. From a small village outside...

The 10th annual Festival of 10-Minute Plays at the Tree City Playhouse

Athena Cocoves

Could you tell a story in ten minutes? Don’t worry, you don’t have to, but the actors at Tree City Playhouse will. During their...

The Village Players Theatre introduces the musical Putting it Together

Nichole Green

What happens when a planned evening goes haywire? The Village Players Theatre introduces the musical Putting it Together. The story of a married couple’s...

The oldest theater in Michigan’s new look

Athena Cocoves

After a yearlong renovation, The Croswell Opera House in downtown Adrian is reopening its doors. Jere Righter, artistic director, said the renovations were aimed...

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